Tekla Structural Designer Open API

An application programming interface into Tekla Structural Designer for Analysis and Design.


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Tekla Structural Designer Open API

  • Customise Tekla Structural Designer functionality to fit into your engineering office workflow
  • Speed up your daily activities
  • Increase Productivity
  • Turn manual routines into automated workflows
  • Integrate Tekla Structural Designer with other software

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Tekla Structural Designer export example

Export data for members, walls, slabs, and connections using Tekla Structural Designer Open API.

A new code example, ExtractingModelData, has been published to the GitHub repository. This example demonstrates how to export data for members, walls, slabs, and connections from Tekla Structural Designer to a .csv file. Explore this and more examples on GitHub.

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